on the individual,
civic education, uniform ways and habits, Jacobin conduct, Spartan
virtue; in short, nothing is to be left in a human being that is not
prescribed, enforced and constrained.--Henceforth, there is opposed to
the Revolution, not alone the partisans of the ancient regime--priests,
nobles, parliamentarians, royalists, and Catholics--but, again, every
person imbued with European civilization, every member of a regular
family, any possessor of a capital, large or small; every kind or degree
of proprietor, farmer, manufacturer, merchant, artisan or farmer, even
most of the revolutionaries. Nearly all the revolutionaries count on
escaping the constraints they impose, and who only like the strait
jacket when it is on another's back.--The influence of resistant wills
at this moment becomes incalculable: it would be easier to raise
a mountain, and, just at this moment, the Jacobins have deprived
themselves of every moral force through which a political engineer acts
on human wills.

Unlike Philip II. and Louis XIV. they are not supported by the
intolerance of a vast majority, for, instead of fifteen or twenty
orthodox against one heretic, they count in their church scarcely more
than one orthodox against fifteen or twenty heretics.[2221]--They are
not, like legitimate sovereigns, supported by the stubborn loyalty of
an entire population, following in the steps of its chieftain out of the
prestige of hereditary right and through habits of ancient fealty. On
the contrary, their reign is only a day old and they themselves are
interlopers. At first installed by a coup d'etat and afterwards by the
semblance of an election, they have extorted or obtained by trick the
suffrages through which they act. They are so familiar with fraud and
violence that, in their own Assembly, the ruling minority has seized
and held on to power by violence and fraud, putting down the majority by
riots, and the departments by force of arms. To give their brutalities
the semblance of right, they improvise two pompous demonstrations,
first, the sudden manufacture of a paper constitution, which molders
away in their archives, and next, the scandalous farce of a hollow
and compulsory plebiscite.--A dozen leaders of the party concentrate
unlimited authority in their own hands; but, as admitted by them, their
authority is derivative; it is the Convention which makes them its
delegates; their precarious title has to be renewed monthly; a turn
of